Super Role Player

Chapter 127 Sweeping and advancing

This season is the first full season of Dillon Corbin's coaching. Throughout the season, Dillon Corbin's performance is still quite good.

However, in the playoffs, Dillon Corbin's lack of experience and ability was fully revealed in this crucial game that must be contested in every game. His poor adjustment before the game made the Jazz fall behind at the beginning. Although he called a timeout , Ready to adjust back, but the veteran Gregg Popovich is not ready to let him go.

The Jazz's next adjustment, you can think of with your butt, must be returning to the inside-oriented mode, so Popovich has already thought about the next adjustment.

"Next, let's shrink the inside and don't give the opponent too much space for inside singles. In addition, the offense continues to speed up and solve this game as soon as possible!" Popovich's adjustment is very simple. Immediately shrink the defense, compress the inside space, and force the Jazz to return to the outside offensive mode. This move can be described as quite ruthless. Once successful, for the Jazz, there is only one final result, and that is their offense will collapse. !

After the timeout, the two sides reappeared, the Jazz attacked, and the Spurs shrank the inside line according to Popovich's adjustment.

Paul Millsap took a better position inside, Devin Harris hit the ground pass, Paul Millsap just received a pass from Devin Harris, the Spurs' shrinking defense took effect, Anxi immediately covered it, the double Double-teaming, Paul Millsap has become very difficult to get the ball inside.

He held the ball and looked for an opportunity. After a few seconds, he was so wrapped up that Paul Millsap could only pass the ball.

The basketball flew into the hands of C.J. Myers on the outside line. He directly shot a three-pointer, and Anxi quickly turned back and rushed over to interfere. The interference was not in place, but C.J. Myers hadn't found the touch of the outside line yet. , The ball still didn't go in!

The Spurs' shrinking defense was very effective. In the next few minutes of the game, the Jazz not only failed to open the inside line, but got a lot of opportunities from the outside line. However, this obviously did not match Dillon Corbin's tactical requirements, and the Jazz's offense fell into chaos. Among them, Devin Harris even began to hesitate whether to continue to pass the ball inside.

The Jazz's offense collapsed. With Tony Parker's mid-range shot, the first quarter ended and the Spurs led by 11 points into the second quarter.

The gap has become wider and wider. For the Jazz, winning the third game has become a luxury.

In the second quarter, the veteran Popovich continued to adjust. The appearance of Manu Ginobili and Thiago Splitter made the Spurs' offense fully alive, and even reached its peak. With the Jazz's adjustment again However, the Spurs further increased the intensity of the offensive end.

The game continued to be one-sided in the second quarter. The Spurs' offense was too strong, and the Jazz, after a quarter of adjustments, their offense just got back on track. So after two quarters, the Jazz trailed the Spurs by 27 points !

The energy solution arena that used to be full of noise can no longer make a sound. The gap is too big, so big that they are a little reluctant to cheer.

In the third quarter, Manu Ginobili broke through and scored. Anxi caught and shot the ball from outside the three-point line. The point difference reached 30 points. Popovich waved his hand and replaced the substitute. Although the Jazz still did not want to give up this game The game, but the gap in strength made the Jazz's not giving up become the last struggle.

In the end, the four quarters were over, and the Spurs won the third game of the series by 24 points. They won three consecutive games, and the barrel of the Spurs offense was hot!

With a big score of 3:0, no one has hope for the Jazz's victory. In the fourth game, if there is no accident, the Jazz will usher in another fiasco.

Soon, the fourth game arrived, and it seemed that in order to solve the game as soon as possible, Popovich made another adjustment ahead of Dillon Corbin. In this game, Anxi was placed in the power forward position by Popovich , the purpose is obvious, he wants to use Anxi's single defense to lock Paul Millsap from the very beginning,

Don't give the Jazz any more chances.

The effect is also obvious. After three quarters, the Spurs lead the Jazz by 81:60 again by 21 points. The first round of the playoffs between the Spurs and the Jazz has ended early!

In the end, the four quarters ended, and the Spurs won another away game at 109:87! Four consecutive victories, swept the Jazz 4:0, and entered the second round!

After the game, Anxi was called over by Jeff Hornacek. Seeing Anxi’s Spurs swept his Jazz, Jeff Hornacek was also a little emotional. In terms of strength, the Jazz is not as good as the Spurs, and they are both small cities The team, the Jazz is one Gregg Popovich worse than the Spurs, anyway, Jeff Hornacek thinks so.

If Jerry Sloan is still there, will the Jazz still lose? Jeff Hornacek has been thinking about this question. In the end, he came to a conclusion that he would lose, because compared to the Spurs, the Jazz have one thing worse, that is the loyalty of GDP, but of course, if Jerry Sloan is here, The Jazz will definitely not lose so badly.

"Ann, well done, keep your form, you guys have a chance to win the championship this season." Jeff Hornacek patted Anxi on the shoulder.

Anxi nodded: "I will, Uncle Jeff."

The championship is still far away from the Spurs' journey, but Anxi and the Spurs are very confident. They showed excellent form in the first round. The current Spurs are already the biggest favorites for this season's championship contenders .

As for the other matchups in the playoffs, there are only two teams that ended the battle in four clean games like the Spurs. The Thunder in the West defeated the Mavericks in four games, but the process was not as smooth as the Spurs. In the third game, they suffered The Mavericks counterattacked and almost lost the game.

On the contrary, the Heat in the East are similar to the Spurs. The four victories are very easy, but only two games are big wins, and the other two games are just small victories. Of course, four sweeps are already very good, which means that the Heat can win Valuable rest time.

Of course, the same is true for the Spurs and Thunder, and they can also get valuable rest time.

The Spurs' opponents in the second round, the Clippers and the Grizzlies drew 2:2, which is good news for the Spurs. The Lakers lead the Nuggets 3:1.

In the East, the Bulls have announced that Derrick Rose will be reimbursed for the season. They also struggled with the 76ers in the playoffs. Already 1:3 behind the 76ers.

The Celtics led the Eagles 3:1, while the Pacers won three games in a row after losing one game first, leading the Magic 3:1.

For the Spurs, a 4:0 sweep will give them more rest time. Once the Clippers and the Grizzlies play seven games, the Spurs' second round of the playoffs will not start until May 15th. At the end of the fourth game between the Spurs and the Jazz, the time was May 7 in the United States, which means that the Spurs will have seven or eight days of rest, which is scary to think about.

However, so much rest time also made Popovich worry. The playoffs are not only about rest, but more importantly, they have to maintain their state.

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